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.' ~ -~ _~C,.' 565 - - -~-- <---- -- - I . I . I . I 32 f 33 RES 0 L UTI 0 N WHEREAS, the City of Eugene has inaugurated an appeal in the ~'1 ~ ;";'1' case of Etter vs. City of Eugene, and a bond has been fur- nished by a Surety Company, and the City is required to make an application for the bond BE IT RESOLVED that the City Attorney be and he i8 hereby authorized to execute such application and to affix thereto the seal of the city. ... Petition requesting repeal of ordinances authorizing licensing the operation of nickel-ln-the-slot machines, pin ball games, marble games and other games, de- vices or machines of a similar nature, was presented and ordered filed. The Recorder reported that the total aIrount of monies expended by the city for operation of the airport during the year 1936, amounted to $349.62. He pointed out that a great deal of work had been done by the federal government which has not been taken into consideration in the above figure. The City Attorney was asked to prepare a contract between the City of Eugene and the United Air Lines .at a monthly rental of $25.00 per month rather than the former price of $15.00 for use of the municipal airport. It was pointed out that the United is to have the exclusive use and occupancy of a certain building known /34 as the administration building located on the Eugene airport. Proposed lease between the city of Eugene and Harold E. Sander was upon motion made and seconded ordered executed upon completion of clause to be inserted by the City Attorney, giving the city the privilege of cancelling the lease at any /35 given month. An ordinance fixing certain safeguards to the city and property owners in the matter of making municipal improvements for which special assessments are to be levied upon the property benefitted or paid by the city was read the first time and referred to the Judiciary Committee and City Attorney f.or further study. / 36 /37 ;38 ;39 ...- An ordinance regulating the speed of vehicles in the Parks of the city wheth r witnin or without the city of ~ugene was read the first time and passed to its second and third readings by title under suspension of the rule by unanimous c6n- sent of the council and was placed on its final passage. The ayes and nays were called, councilmen voting aye, Hendershott, Reid, Bond, Carlson, Farrington, Hanns; nay, none; absent, Lamb and Page. The ordinance was declared passed, and numbered 8499. An ordinance fixing regulations upon the ownership and use of bicycles in the city of Eugene, providing a penalty, and declaring an emergency, and repealing all ordinances in conflict herewith, had its first reading and held for further consideration until the next meeting. 40 Mr. E. A. Barette, local citizen, opposed the ordinance on the grounds that sidewalks were constructed for the use of pedestrians and the present ordinance states that wherever a street is improved, the bicycle rider must use the,streets. He further revealed that the State law rules that the streets are to be used for vehicles and sidewalks for pedestrians. The speaker said that his wife had been injured as a result of sidewalk bicycle riding and that he would soon present a bl 1 to the city for the medical care. Mr. H. W. White was granted full permission for erection of any poles 3r wires necessary for installation of the police radio. " ________ Resolution directing the Treasurer to return tre deed on Lots 9, 10 and 11 in Block 2, Croner's Addition to Lawrence T. Harris without recording the same was ...- i./ f duly adopted: R f1. S Q. L U T, I Q N WHEREAS, heretofore Lawrence T. Harris and wife nave executed a deed to the City of Eugene for Lots 9, 10, and 11 in Block 2, Croner's Addition to Eugene, and surrendered the Lots to the city because they did not wish to pay the city assessments against the lots, and WHEREAS, the City has on its records accepted the deed and since such acceptance a party has come in and agreed to take over the lots ~